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Australia's residential aged care facilities are getting bigger and less home-like

  • Written by: Ralph Hampson, Senior Lecturer, Health and Ageing, University of Melbourne
Australia's residential aged care facilities are getting bigger and less home-likeResidential aged care facilities should be more like a home and less like a hospital.from shutterstock.com

Most older people want to stay at home as long as they can. When this is no longer possible, they move into residential aged care facilities, which become their home. But Australia’s care facilities for the aged are growing in size and...

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Cuts and restructures send alarm through South Australia's arts sector

  • Written by: Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne
Cuts and restructures send alarm through South Australia's arts sectorAdelaide has been known as the 'Athens of the South', but there are concerns about the current state of arts governance in South Australia. brotherlywalks/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

South Australia’s Coalition government, elected in March 2018 after 16 years of Labor rule, has alarmed the state’s arts industry with major changes to the way the...

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are SUVs and 4WDs safer than other cars?

  • Written by: David Logan, Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Monash University

This is an article from I’ve Always Wondered, a series where readers send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. Send your question to alwayswondered@theconversation.edu.au

The Sydney suburbs around me are clogged with huge 4WD cars which have never seen a dirt road. I think people buy them because they think they are safer. Are...

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Labor leads 54-46% in Newspoll that shows slight improvement for government

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The government would be trounced at an election held now, although the Coalition has clawed back slightly in the past fortnight and Scott Morrison has improved his lead as better prime minister, according to the latest Newspoll.

The Coalition trails 46-54% in the poll, published in Monday’s Australian, compared with 44-56% in the first two...

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  1. Influence in Australian politics needs an urgent overhaul – here's how to do it
  2. Grass trees aren't a grass (and they're not trees)
  3. Peter Grimes is a thrilling and moving staging of the great English opera
  4. Michelle Grattan on strawberries, Sudmalis, schools, and the au pair affair
  5. Super. If Labor really wanted to help women in retirement, it would do something else
  6. Is it time for Australia to be more open about research involving animals?
  7. If privacy is increasing for My Health Record data, it should apply to all medical records
  8. New laws help juries understand why victims of sexual violence struggle to recall their assaults
  9. why Catholic primary school parents can afford to pay more
  10. Quotas are not pretty but they work – Liberal women should insist on them
  11. Why does English have so many different spelling rules?
  12. the GFC and me. Ten years on, what have we learned?
  13. what do we want to be when we grow up?
  14. What makes you a man or a woman? Geneticist Jenny Graves explains
  15. The backflip over Sydney's marine park is a defiance of science
  16. Can e-scooters solve the 'last mile' problem? They'll need to avoid the fate of dockless bikes
  17. Planned trade deal with Europe could keep medicine prices too high
  18. Morrison aims to make agility his prime ministerial trademark
  19. Aboriginal people lived in Australia's desert interior 50,000 years ago, earlier than first thought
  20. Desal plants might do less damage to marine environments than we thought
  21. En Masse is an arresting fusion of circus, dance and classical music
  22. 160 years of Māori monarchy
  23. Government unfurls $4.6 billion private schools package, calming Catholic critics
  24. We won't fix female super until we fix female pay, but Labor's ideas are a start
  25. We've had 20 aged care reviews in 20 years – will the royal commission be any different?
  26. How the law failed three children and their families in the Bowraville murder case
  27. two neat ways to get young minds thinking this school holiday season
  28. why the full story of Murdoch, Stokes and the Liberal leadership spill needs to be told
  29. The off-topic Conversation #168
  30. The shocking truth about insurance. We pick bad policies even with good information
  31. The Australian war film Jirga is a lesson in Afghan forgiveness
  32. how our leaders work hard at being 'ordinary'
  33. We've cracked the cane toad genome, and that could help put the brakes on its invasion
  34. A community fix for the affordable housing crisis
  35. Your Apple Watch can now record your ECG – but what does that mean and can you trust it?
  36. 'Walking into a headwind' – what it feels like for women building science careers
  37. Dutton back in spotlight after split Senate report on au pair affair
  38. Mother's Ruin is a stellar, gin-soaked cabaret
  39. How our residential aged-care system doesn't care about older people's emotional needs
  40. As we celebrate the rediscovery of the Endeavour let's acknowledge its complicated legacy
  41. what are copycat crimes and who commits them?
  42. On the Serena Williams cartoon -- and how the UK phone hacking scandal led to a media crackdown in South Africa
  43. how ASIC is trying to make corporate misconduct hurt
  44. how dolphins learn to work together for rewards
  45. Why New Zealand was the first country where women won the right to vote
  46. what does it mean to be 'cisgender'?
  47. The AFL's gender diversity policy remains an apprehensive work in progress
  48. ‘step up’ to help the unemployed
  49. Business as usual? The Sustainable Development Goals apply to Australian cities too
  50. I can't sleep. What drugs can I (safely) take?

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